Last dives of 2009! in Okinawa

 Today, we had great last dives in Inanbishi.
Saw some interesting nudibranchs, cuttlefish, and of course, anemonefish.
It’s the time of the year when cuttlefish start mating and lay eggs.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
3. Inanbishi
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 17C (62.6F)
Water: 22C (71.6F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood


Also, we started to see a bunch of nudibranchs now.
This one on the picture is the kind that we had never seen before here.
Please tell us if you know the name!
Alright, here is a nice photo from our dive boat, which Akira took.
Beautiful sunset on the last day of 2009!
Everyone, have a nice new year’s holidays!
Miho

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Labyrinth and Kadena Diving! Macro Underwater Photos

Hi everyone,
We went diving gooood dive sites today again.
The sun came out, which made our swim-thru dives nice.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Chiibishi Islands and Okinawa Main Island
1. Kamiyama Labyrinth (Chiibishi)
2. Kamiyama Labyrinth (Chiibishi)
3. Mizugama Red Marker (Kadena North)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 24C (75.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
We saw sharks, went through many swim-thrus, and got to the place where Akira found a Japanese Pigmy Seahorse last time he was there.
Yes, he found it again. But last time he saw it, it was white…. is it a different one? or did it change color? Hmmm…
After lunch we enjoyed diving the Red Marker, near our port.
Panda Anemonefish were doing still alright over there.
Miho

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Anemonefish, Frogfish, Cuttlefish… Okinawa Diving!

Okinawa Main Island has many dive sites….
Even in this weather with strong wind from north, we have our favorite spots available for diving!

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa West Coast
1. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
2. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
3. Red Marker – Kadena North (Okinawa)
4. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Surge, Waves
Air: 17C (62.6F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood






From the afternoon, we had Jan from Michigan trying his first dive in Okinawa with his brand-new camera.
Many pictures turned out good!
We saw a huge octopus at the Red Marker!

 At the Inanbishi, we spent some time taking pictures of anemone fish.
We have Clerk’s Anemonefish, Tomato Anemonefish, Pink Anemonefish, Crown Anemonefish (Nemo), and this cute family of White-backed Anemonefish.

Also, we found my favorite friend, giant frogfish taking a walk on the sand.
Miho

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Kerama Diving – Tokashiki and Kamiyama

We went all the way to the south of Tokashiki Island in the Keramas.
Today, we had a student from Open Water Certification Course.
He is very lucky to have the good visibility water in the Keramas for his first dives in his life.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands and Chiibishi
1. Muchizuni In-Reef (Tokashiki)
2. Muchizuni Out-Reef (Tokashiki)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama)
Objective: Open Water Dives 1.2.3
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood
 

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Whale Shark Diving!

Today, we went diving with whale sharks.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Okinawa West Coast
1. Whale Shark Diving (Yomitan)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 19C (66.2F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood
The visibility was very good today – our honeymoon couple enjoyed swimming with the whale sharks and taking pictures of them. They are planning to go driving South today. Have a nice honey moon!

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Christmas Okinawa Diving! – Keramas and Blue Cave

Today we had two teams, one going to the Kerama Island with our boat and the other one for Onna area.
It was very good condition again, with south wind, perfect for my favorite dive sites around the Kuroshima Island.

 

*** Today’s Dives ***
Kerama Islands
1. Hija Bay (Kuroshima North)
Onna Boat Team
1. Blue Cave (Maeda)
2. Bat Fish Buoy (Maeda)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 20C (68F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

During the dives in Onna, Akira found a huge school of bat fish. Many many of them.

We found a boxer crab on the rock – very tiny one, about 5-8mm.

After looking at small stuff, we found a huge frogfish at the place where he always hang out.
Miho

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Kerama Diving! – turtles, sharks, and whales

Merry Christmas, everybody!

It was a beautiful day for diving in the Kerama Islands.
On the way to the Keramas, we saw humpback whales for the first time for this winter.

 *** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima North
2. Kuromaezaki (Zamami Island)
3. Inanbishi (Okinawa)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 23C (73.4F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood


 
We had a family trying snorkeling and discover scuba diving for the first time. At first, they were planning to just snorkel around, then, they got fascinated too much by the good visibility of the water in the Keramas. They decided to try diving into it!
Also, we had a 14 years old diver. He earned 50 dives already at his age- next time, maybe trying more specialty courses.
We saw turtles, sharks, and whales – goooood day of diving!!
Miho

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Macro Photo Diving – Red Beach

We went diving the Red Beach again today.
We spent long time taking good photos of some decoration crabs, tiny shrimps on sea pens, and sea fan crabs.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Red Beach
2. Red Beach
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 16C (60.8F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suits: 5mm one piece + hood

There are many kinds of interesting crabs and shrimps, as well as gobies. Some of them could be very rare ones or even not recognized ones.
Good dives again!


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Red Beach – Okinawa East Coast shore dive

Due to the strong wind and swell　from North, we decided to go East, to the Kin Town to dive the Red Beach.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Red Beach
2. Red Beach
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Flat
Air: 16C (60.8F)
Water: 23C (73.4F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

It was very flat over there and the visibility was better than we thought. We always find interesting creatures here.
Today, we found goast pipe fish, sponge crabs, lots of gobies, and Taiwanese barracudas.

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Discover Scuba Diving in Okinawa!

It was rainy today….
We had a girl trying scuba diving for the first time.
She used to bodyboard a lot, so it was easy to get her in the water.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Okinawa Main Island
1. Inanbishi
2. Inanbishi
Objective: Discover Scuba Diving
Weather: Choppy
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece + hood

Her comment was interesting-
She said that the water was too clear and it scared her!
We saw many kinds of anemone fish, nudibranchs, and swam around the rich soft coral reef.

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Sharks, Blue Ribbon Eels, and caves… - Kerama Diving

We had good photo dives today.
Started off with the caves of Kamiyama Labyrinth and watched our favorite White tip sharks.
Sharks here are not shy, we spent some time taking pictures of them.
*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Chiibishi and Okinawa Main Island
1. Labyrinth (Kamiyama, Chiibishi)
2. Inanbishi
3. Inanbishi
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Choppy
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

In the afternoon, we moved back to our local sites.
Had two dives at Inanbishi (aka. Anemone Fish Paradice).
Now, we have some Japanese Pigmy Seahorses living on a rock here.  Also, our friend, a Blue Ribbon Eel is still hanging around. We got nice picture of him as well.
In Japanese, Blue Ribbon Eel is called ‘Hana hige Utsubo’ which means ‘Flower Barb Eels’. Interesting.
Anyway, its blue and yellow colors are very photogenic, aren’t they?
Miho


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Exploring ‘the Labyrinth’- Diving in Chiibishi

It was a nice dead flat day, today.
The visibility was great – look at the picture on the left for the crystal clear water of the Kerama Islands. The sunshine from the surface was shining through like a shower.

*** Today’s Dives ***
Dive Sites: Kerama and Chiibishi
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma West (Zamami)
3. Labyrinth (Kamiyama, Chiibishi)
Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Sunny and Flat
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

For the last dive of the day, we went diving the ‘Labyrinth’ site by Kamiyama Island, Chiibishi. How many swimthrus did we pass? We don’t remember. The shark we always find was still resting at exactly the same place. How nice if we can take a nap in the water…
The picture on the right is from one of the caves from Kamiyama.



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12/12/2009 We heard whales singing!

Today was another good day of diving in the Kerama Islands.
We had two dives in the Keramas, visiting two islands – Kuroshima and Zamami.
Our guest from Poland (living in Japan for 13 years!) said he was not cold at all with his long-john type wetsuit!

It’s still December, but we started hearing humpback whales singing! It will not be too far when we start seeing them – they are surely around here!

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Kerama Islands
1. Kuroshima South
2. Toma (Zamami)
3. Marina 225 (Kadena)

Objective: Fun Dives
Weather: Sunny and Flat
Air: 23C (75F)
Water: 23C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

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Another New Wreck near by our shop!

Today, we took the Swift out to do some dive site research dives!
Especially in winter, we go diving only by ourselves to explore dive sites more so we can guide our customers better.

*** Today’s Dives ***

Dive Sites: Inanbishi (Okinawa)
Objective: Dive Site Research
Weather: Sunny and Flat
Air: 24C (75F)
Water: 24C (75F)
Suites: 5mm one piece

We went studying our home ground dive site, Inanbishi.
We can show you all the 6 kinds of Anemone Fish we can find in Okinawa, here at Inanbishi. , just 5 min. away from Kadena Fishing Port. So the nickname of this site is ‘Anemone Fish Paradise’.

Today, we went a little further and explored a newly found wreck.
I’m sorry, but we cannot tell you the details and show you the pictures at the moment.

Miho

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